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YAMAGUCHI

JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 4, 2016
Police on high alert as violence escalates between rival yakuza gangs
It's like a mob movie.
Japan Times
Figure Skating / ICE TIME
Feb 2, 2016
Fernandez improving, but still not in Hanyu's class
World champion Javier Fernandez made history last week when he won his fourth consecutive European title in Bratislava. In accomplishing the feat the Spaniard became the first skater since Czechoslovakia's Ondrej Nepela in 1972 to capture the Euro crown four straight times.
SOCCER / J. League
Jan 12, 2016
Former Japan defender Yamaguchi retires
Kyoto Sanga defender Satoshi Yamaguchi, whose 448 J1 games are 10th all-time, has retired, the J. League second-division side said Tuesday.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Jan 5, 2016
Hanover welcomes new signing Yamaguchi
On a freezing, snowy day, former Cerezo Osaka midfielder Hotaru Yamaguchi was introduced to the German media on Tuesday by his new Bundesliga club, Hannover.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jan 4, 2016
New BayStars skipper Ramirez gives Yamaguchi opportunity to start opener
Alex Ramirez showed his flair for the unconventional on Monday, when the new Yokohama BayStars manager named right-hander Shun Yamaguchi as his Opening Day starter.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / DARK SIDE OF THE RISING SUN
Jan 2, 2016
Looking for a bit of light in the fight against crime
Do you ever get the feeling that you're trapped in Harold Ramis' 1993 movie "Groundhog Day," except that you're an investigative journalist, not a weatherman, and the nemesis that keeps popping up isn't a rodent but a crime syndicate boss? Maybe it's just me.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Dec 19, 2015
Gangs, girl power and getting old: Japan's magazines ring out 2015
A roundup of the final weekly magazines of 2015 finds many preoccupied with the split within the Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza group.
SOCCER
Dec 18, 2015
Hanover makes bid for Cerezo's Yamaguchi
Bundesliga side Hanover has made an official offer for Japan and Cerezo Osaka midfielder Hotaru Yamaguchi, a team executive revealed Friday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 10, 2015
U.S. blacklists ex-yakuza living in Cambodia over Yamaguchi-gumi money laundering
The U.S. government designated a Japanese former gang leader as subject to economic sanctions Wednesday, alleging his ongoing involvement in money laundering for the country's largest crime syndicate, the Yamaguchi-gumi.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 4, 2015
Yamaguchi train passenger overpowered after threatening woman with box-cutter
A 31-year-old train passenger in Yamaguchi Prefecture has been arrested after pulling a box-cutter knife on the 24-year-old woman sitting next to him and threatening to kill her.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / Wide Angle
Nov 11, 2015
Mitaka Community Cinema relives the glory days of local theaters
Ah, for the days of real movie theaters. Just as a certain Seattle-based company has made the brick-and-mortar bookstore obsolete, the real-deal cinema house died a slow death — first maimed by the multiplex and then killed by the Internet.
JAPAN
Nov 11, 2015
Nihon University sacks law professor emeritus who borrowed ¥20 million from former yakuza
Nihon University has announced that it fired a 77-year-old professor emeritus for borrowing ¥20 million from a former member of the Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza crime syndicate.
JAPAN
Nov 10, 2015
Nihon University probes professor over loan from ex-yakuza
Nihon University is questioning a professor emeritus who borrowed ¥20 million from a former senior member of the Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza syndicate.
JAPAN / Media / DARK SIDE OF THE RISING SUN
Oct 31, 2015
'Obsolete' gangsters proving problematic
Organized crime syndicates are not fading away, they're just becoming obsolete.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 27, 2015
Sakanaction's Ichiro Yamaguchi plays with rare sound system on upcoming TV show
The Nov. 1 broadcast of "Jonetsu Tairiku" will feature the rare use of a binaural recording system on television — essentially, 3-D for your ears.
JAPAN
Oct 20, 2015
Yamaguchi-gumi split, toughened laws will weaken gangs: experts
The recent fracturing of the Yamaguchi-gumi, the country's largest and most powerful crime syndicate, will considerably weaken the gang organization and all yakuza groups in general, two noted experts told a news conference Tuesday in Tokyo.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 15, 2015
Japan ruling coalition party invites China's Xi to visit in spring
The head of the junior partner in Japan's ruling coalition on Thursday handed Chinese President Xi Jinping a letter from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and invited him to visit Tokyo around spring.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 15, 2015
Court orders state to pay damages for noise at Iwakuni base but does not ban flights
The Yamaguchi District Court on Thursday ordered the state to pay noise pollution damages to residents around a U.S. air base in Yamaguchi Prefecture but rejected calls to suspend joint flights.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 14, 2015
Former nuclear power worker, 92, keeps up fight against planned Yamaguchi plant
Based on his own experience working in the nuclear power industry, Ichio Isobe, 92, is gravely concerned by moves to reactivate Japan's idled reactors.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Sep 19, 2015
Yakuza infighting puts nation on edge
Around the start of this year, the weekly magazines — Shukan Taishu, Asahi Geino and Shukan Jitsuwa in particular — were brimming with articles feting the centennial anniversary of the Yamaguchi-gumi, which had gone from being a small group of tough guys on the Kobe waterfront in 1915 to...
Japan's population continues to fall even as foreign resident count rises
The number of residents in Tokyo as of Jan. 1 rose by 0.03% from a year before, data shows, marking a year-on-year increase for the first time in three years, while the country's other 46 prefectures saw their populations continue to decline.
Ahead of the Olympics, Japan is still talking about the gymnast who won't be there
Japan's Shoko Miyata withdrew from the gymnastics team herself over her drinking and smoking, although it had already appeared as though the association was prepared to send her home from the team’s training camp in Monaco.
Yen melt-up nudges Japanese stocks into correction territory
Japanese stocks are down 10% from their July peak as the yen strengthens.
‘Crazy’ yen rally is at risk of shattering as soon as Wednesday
Some investors are warning that a yen rally is fragile, as was on show this week when the yen rapidly retraced an advance after Thursday’s stronger-than-expected U.S. economic growth figures.
Japan's average life expectancy rises for first time in three years
A decline in COVID-19-caused deaths likely helped boost the average life expectancy for Japanese men and women to rise for the first time in three years in 2023.
The Japanese Olympians looking to shine in Paris
Rim Nakamura, who is attempting to win Japan's first Olympic gold medal in cycling, will be one of the top Japanese athletes to watch at the Paris Games.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
Japan loses top spot on strongest passport list to Singapore
Japan had the strongest passport for six years running from 2018, before being dethroned by Singapore on the 2024 list.
Why Japan's mysterious stash of classified funds escapes scrutiny
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (right) during a meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japan eyes gold — and the future — as Olympic men's soccer campaign begins
Japan midfielder Yu Hirakawa controls the ball during a match against the United States in Kansas City, Kansas, on June 11.

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